George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?
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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.